U.S. Naval aviation expansion during the past year; Progress of the Army Air Corps; Aeronautics in Europe by Igor Sikorsky; Down Texas Way; Flying from Maine to Spain; New airlines in Russia. . . In: Aero Digest, Vol. 15, No. 1. by [AVIATION -- MAGAZINE]. HORSFALL, J.E. & McLAUGHLIN, George F. (Eds.) - July, 1929.
by [AVIATION -- MAGAZINE]. HORSFALL, J.E. & McLAUGHLIN, George F. (Eds.)
U.S. Naval aviation expansion during the past year; Progress of the Army Air Corps; Aeronautics in Europe by Igor Sikorsky; Down Texas Way; Flying from Maine to Spain; New airlines in Russia. . . In: Aero Digest, Vol. 15, No. 1.
by [AVIATION -- MAGAZINE]. HORSFALL, J.E. & McLAUGHLIN, George F. (Eds.)
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New York: Aeronautical Digest, July, 1929. 4to. 294 pp. 100s of photos, text illustrations, schematics, diagrams, colour-tinted ads, 1 full colour plate ads for Berryloid Aircraft Finishes, and pink & tan-coloured printed section advertising The Full Line of Fairchild aircraft. Illustrated colour softcovers, cover art of Curtiss Condor Bomber dropping bomb below in red, white & blue (minor edgewear, couple very slight closed closed tears, slight creasing to corners), still VG copy. First edition of this issue devoted to national defense applications of aircraft, as well as detailing innovations in the aircraft industry at the end of the Jazz Age. The illustrated advertisements are virtually a Who’s Who of aviation manufacturers at the time, with technical sections on the Cunningham-Hall, Invincible Cabin Monoplane, the Boeing Model 100 Sport Plane, The General Aristocrat, The Lee Monoplane, the Curtiss Conqueror-Condor, Kreutzer Tri-motored Air Coach, the Fairchild KR-21 Biplane, and others.
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- Date Published July, 1929.
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